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Gracilibacter thermotolerans, with strain JW/YJL-S1T as the type strain, is the only species of the genus Gracilibacter. The type strain, isolated from sediment of an acid sulfate-containing water of a constructed wetland system (Savannah River Site near Aiken, SC, USA), is obligatorily anaerobic, chemoorganotrophic, asporogenic, and thermotolerant. Its closest phylogenetic neighbor is Lutispora thermophila, with which it shares 85.3 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. As these two genera form an individual clade among neighboring lineages with family status, Lutispora is transferred into the family Gracilibacteraceae on the basis of its phylogenetic position.
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Stackebrandt, E. (2014). The Family Gracilibacteraceae and Transfer of the Genus Lutispora into Gracilibacteraceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_358
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